[ROS2] How to enable logging

answered 2019-07-22 04:41:48 -0500

alsora
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updated 2019-07-22 04:44:49 -0500

At the moment logging to file is not directly possible with ROS2, unless you register a custom logger interface. It will be probably available soon https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros2-logg...

For what concerns enabling log to standard output, the command that you used is not entirely correct. You have to set the logger verbosity for a specific ROS2 application.

The correct one would be something like this (for example for the publisher_lambda demo executable)

ros2 run examples_rclcpp_minimal_publisher publisher_lambda __log_level:=debug

Inside your application, you can log using the following macro (assuming C++ application)

RCLCPP_INFO(node->get_logger(), "This is my log message");

By default, the messages will be also logged to a specific topic, named rosout. (This behavior can be disabled using the parameter __log_disable_rosout:=true) So you can listen to them using

ros2 topic echo /rosout

An alternative is to use rqt which has plugins for reading and filtering logs

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Thank you for this explanation. Is the fastrtps internal logger also routed into the rcl logging system? In order to troubleshoot connectivity issues, I would like to see logs from the FastRTPS library.

Windel ( 2019-07-22 05:52:35 -0500 )edit

No, it isn't. As a side note, until some time ago logging in Fast-RTPS required a debug build, I'm not aware if they changed this. https://github.com/eProsima/Fast-RTPS...

alsora ( 2019-07-22 05:59:26 -0500 )edit

Btw, I tried a simple rclpy script, and ros2 topic echo /rosout does not give any output.

Windel ( 2019-07-22 06:05:48 -0500 )edit

There is probably an error in the implementation of your script. I suggest you to open a new question about that. If you want to test this with rclpy try the following:

ros2 run examples_rclpy_minimal_client clientros2 topic echo rosout

The client node will log a message saying that it's not finding a server. You should see the message both in the client terminal, as well as in a new terminal using the echo command shown above

alsora ( 2019-07-22 07:53:23 -0500 )edit

Have there been any updates with regards to logging to a file in Eloquent or Foxy? Either support for it or perhaps a Github issue tracking the feature? (this is the top result when I search for it, so it'd be great if this page at least could direct one to the right place)

ssnover95 ( 2020-09-18 18:06:38 -0500 )edit

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